by Jason Apollo Voss | 23 07 2010 | Blog
Stock markets started collapsing at the beginning of May after investors suddenly started paying attention to the debt crisis that was plaguing European banks. Specifically those rascally Greeks sent folks into fear paroxysms. As a part of calming investor stomachs...
by Jason Apollo Voss | 21 07 2010 | Blog
This morning President Obama signed into law the financial overhaul bill that has been debated for almost his entire Presidency. This marks a milestone for many. First, the investing public finally gets protections that are essential. With these protections in place...
by Jason Apollo Voss | 20 07 2010 | Best of the Blog, Blog
Much start-stop strangeness is happening in the stock markets. Ostensibly this is due to companies reporting earnings that either exceed or are in line with expectations; yet whose revenues fail to excite. This is the very same issue I wrote about over a year ago as...
by Jason Apollo Voss | 14 07 2010 | Blog
Good morning everyone. The news is that U.S. retail sales were down 0.5% in June from their levels in May. This level compares to an expectation from economists of a 0.3% drop. However, if you exclude food and energy prices, both of which fluctuate dramatically,...
by Jason Apollo Voss | 13 07 2010 | Blog
Several weeks ago I gave the heads up that the Greek government announced its intentions to attempt to raise more money by the issuance of more debt. This was a very closely scrutinized event. If the Greeks failed then it would be a vote of no confidence from the...
by Jason Apollo Voss | 13 07 2010 | Blog
Fears of economic meltdown in Europe’s PIGS economies remain, as Moody’s downgraded the debt of Portugal yesterday by two notches, down to an A1 rating. [PIGS is short for Portugal, Italy, Greece and Spain, and is an apt name given the huge appetite for...
